11-year-old killed after being run over by minivan

BALLSTON -- An 11-year-old died Monday afternoon after being run over by an unattended vehicle that rolled out of a driveway, authorities said.

Lane Rowe of Blue Barns Road was killed at around 3:19 p.m. by a 2008 Dodge Caravan that was occupied by three children -- ages 2, 4 and 12 -- and parked on an inclined driveway on the same road, New York State Police said. The van began to roll backward and the 11-year-old got behind the vehicle in an attempt to stop it from rolling into the road, a preliminary investigation showed.

The minivan came to rest on Rowe, who was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident.

The investigation is ongoing. The state police Collision Reconstruction Unit is using the evidence from the scene to determine the sequence of events, which shows thus far that the vehicle rolled from the driveway into the northbound shoulder of Blue Barns Road, where the vehicle came to rest